By Jo Best
Published: Thursday 29 July 2004
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Name
CPK Smithies
Location
Wimborne, Dorset
Occupation
Visionary
Comment
With a foolproof biometric - should such a thing exist - ID cards will be more, not less, dangerous to the individual. The danger comes from people who can forge the cards - so putting their biometrics on to a card with Honest Joe's ID on it. They will then be able to generate "incontrovertible" evidence that Honest Joe committed this and that crime.
Of course, some people do believe in foolproof technology. This is fine, but I do not see why they should inflict their irrational prejudice on the rest of us!
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